Cooling II KC

Cooling the Lava- II
Described by Katelyn Clews


This article seems to be about the conflit between man and nature. How sometimes no matter how much we try to manipulate

things to make life easier and better for ourselves, nature sometimes fights back and gets its way. This article is about how

distructive volcanos can be, but even with massive distruction, and terrible outcomes, this is just they way the world works.

Sometimes nature takes its toll on us, and isnt affected by humanity, things like a voncano cant really be dispruped as easily as

other things. Again McPhee is taking things that arent common to everyday like, obviously we dont hear about volcanos every day

on the news, so it interesting to read some factual information about them. McPhee has a way of finding material to grab the

interest of his readers.


Garett also mentioned in his description of this article that McPhee puts in facts that go right over your head, the ones that you can

only comprehend if you look them up from another sourse. I dont think its McPhees goal to confuse his readers, but more so make

them become aware of the knowledge in the world that we had no idea was out there. If McPhee used nothing but basic facts that

we already knew, what would be the point in writing? I think his writing is a way to get these facts, whether they be important

issues, or just things that would be cool to know. Either way he does a good job informing his readers about what is going on in the

world that we had no idea existed.